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4 i I MONDAY. KAY 23 PLATTSXOuTH SE3H - WEEEXY JOTTENAL PAGE TET.E1 I he pttsmoiith Journal PUBLISHED m-WEESLY AT PLATTSZHOUTH, NEBEASKA Entered atTloie, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter Ri. BATES, STJBSCEIPTI.'EICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FISST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, f per year. Kate to Canada and foreign countries, per yi 'All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. How would rigiessmen like a high tax on po Japan is fow d order in Manchuria if stsuesthe order. With changi condfcons, a Tot of big shots fiithemslves blown up. At Albany. V? York they are beginning to sk of ri as the Happy Worrier. 'Railroads aikillmg fer pas sengers." Ye?, d fewer pjsengers is killing the rroads. o: Just as we habecome acejtomed to using the wti de-pressioi along comes resubmisn to tussievith. o:- One combina-n that theresi dential slatemals have no: fght of is John J.kob and shop Cannon. t A fashion ac -Ji i y decrees iat the walking-stU -ust come 1. Many hope that, ubrellas must c... back also. -: o : Do you recal -vhen you and t jrirl friend cii have a giorio time with a 2" n: s show and a babe of peanuts? 1 : :o: One nice tfin.''b-ut a baby bond Operations in the Soviet's huuc is that you lor. : nave to get up iEotor factory are at a standstill. the middle I? theight anc! St it a drink of wer. .oi- Every fsT r'JS racketeer has his better nI,eRt-F6 fancy, when he earnestl beliefs his is a racket to end airacket. :o: cjjthing in i que in the line of preihotocrirhs these days would ne picture f a prominent Demo- vitli H.-tot -,r f necessary, tn more Japanese rislons w ill retirn to Manchuria i demonstrate tt-t Pu-Yi's State is ndependent of Jsan. irj : Gardeners coul rave a lot of dis appointment by merely planting their seed in the M ighbor's chicken yard in the first ifcce. :r We bet the la j Wayne Wheeler would have said f By all means. let's have this ref?vndum on Prohi bition. And let's t- it on the morn ing after New Ye-i's Eve T Americanism: l-nding mission aries to save the Ttr heathen: per milting 700,000 cildren under fif teen to labor in industrial plant? while men look in tin for jobs. :o- While we have r: -r believed there was very much to I is spinach diet. yet the doctors ha from time to time advocated its use, and the 57 farietiej organizatii and many oth rs have canned tl isands cf cans rind millions of pqi le cat it fresh In season and our if cans at other times. Hut we dojning if someone would start canniiij the old-fashion ed barnyard gr;J composed of pork, slick dock, rild lettuce, etc., they would have pmething to talk about. TV SAME PRICE forever ziSU&t 4o asm years 71 Mm 758 Publisher "Al Smith Speaks Out." Out ot turn is the way we heard two or three Democrats describe it. :o: Well, we hope to goodness t lite year's crop of college graduates will turn out to be bond-buyers. Another good thing to remember, is that your bank roll won't count when the roll is called up yonder. :o: Xo, sir we're not in favor cf an open-door policy; not with the wolf pacing up and down on our front porch! :o: The Detroit X;ws sees nothing to do about the Geneva arms confer ence except to score it just another time at bat. :c: Personally we don't think the problem is so much one of making the bears stop as it is one of making the bulls begin. :o: Just a nominal fee for checking hats thrown into the Democratic ring might do wonders towaid whit tling down the deficit. :o: The information that the oil com panies a?aiu are making money will no news to parents who permit youngsters to use the family car. L-t all is not lost. The comrades are isiiy engaged in talking things vr. :o: V University of Michigan fresh ni dislocated his jaw in a pie eat in contest. Painful, no doubt, but ::i-jilace on the varsity next year sea.s assured. r'o: A geologist reports that Man- chun is very similar to Illinois. The reserfclance is growing, too. A mas sacretook thirty-five lives in Man churiayeeterday. . :o: Dueb his recent study in Latin rcots. Be c nice boy is able to in form u! today that a (Tup lex is a house rith two mortgages, and a penthotie has five. t :o: "We tre in a tariff trap," accord ing to I-presentative liainey. And it doesn't ;help our feelings much to recall -.Vat it's our own trap, and we set ourselves. :o: At the moment, our idea of a mir acle man is a fellow who could get into troub'.e almost anywhere on the Atlantic without finding Captain Fried within hailing distance. :o: Just r.o the esteemed hoi polloi ill know that it is to have no rest. the biggest horde of chiggers in his tory is about rca-'.y to march, armed with snickerness and saw-edged bayonets. :o: The documentary proof of the bond gift to Mayor Walker has disappear ed removed from the pigeonhole. perhaps, while everybody was look ing cut the window Saturday at the beer parade. :o: It is a mistake to saj- that the av erage New Yorker knows nothing about the geography of his country outside of Ne w or;:. lie knows about Alabamy, Caroliny, Louisiany and practically ail the famous local ities that appear in mammy songs. :o: Col. II. Norman Schwarzkopf, di rector cf the New Jersey state po lice, for whom a number of weary New Jersey political leaders are now gunning, prepared himself as a po lice executive, we read, by being in barge of the delivery section of a big department store. It would be interesting to know how the colonel's record was at that time in regard to finding lost packages. :o: Two movie" stars w hose .marriage has been perilously near the rocks were reconciled the other day when they met at the wife's mother's bed side, the wife's mother having been sent to a hospital with a broken col- r bone suffered in a motor acci dent. You wouldn't think there'd be so much romance in a mother-in- law's collar bone, would jou even in spring? THE FETISH OP FRONTIERS The European debate, which is fertile in phrases, has struck clT "the devalorizat ion of frontiers." It means that intercommunications be tween the peoples should be such that the precise boundaries of na tions will be, except for administra tive purposes, of no consequence. Certainly such a phrase is timely. Men have made a fetish of frontiers. Between Prance and Switzerland there is a small strip of territory that for a century has been regarded as common ground. It is really French, but since Geneva, a Swiss town, is cut oh" by its lake from easy access to the rest of Switzerland, and since there has been a constant intercourse of Genovese and French, who exchange their goods in the con tiguous territories, ft was agreed that the French customs cordon should he placed seme distance be hind the political frontier. For a hundred years this territory present ed an excellent example' cf what Uie devaloization of frontiers means. The French barrier was removed from the Swi.-s frontier but it was re-erected some way behind the frontier. Why not abolished alto gether? Why not abolished all over Europe? Why should not the fron tier be a purely imaginary line a: it is between two municipalities? Two cities which touch each other do not wage war to determine whether this or that street shall belong to one or the other. Municipal frontier have been de valorized. Why not national fron tiers? It has become obvious that all European countries are interre lated, and are compelled, if they are to escapo ruin, to work together. It is. not only in the Danubian coun tries, of which we have heard much recently, that it is economically nec essary to smash the artificial bar riers that keep nations miprisoned in water-tight compartments. It is essential that the process of co-operation, of interchanges, snail be ex tended. "Revision cf treaties," cry tne vanquished, who assert that the new map of Europe lias been badly drawn. "Revision means war." affirm those nations who would stand to lose ter ritory. "Put the status quo, with its territorial grievances, also means war," retort those who keep their eyes on the lo'-t territories. The deadlock is complete. Friendly re lations are blocked by this obsession of frontiers. Yet the remedy is simple. The trouble arises because the nations have fixed their attention on their frontiers. Those frontiers, if they did not constitute barriers if Ger many and Poland, for example, while keeping their f rentiers, demolished their barriers would be cf rela tively small importance. If they were merely administrative, and permit ted economic and human intercourse, nobody would pay much attention to :ho frontiers. What could it natter, in a really harmonicas world, whether the piece of ground on which the Pole lives is called Germany rr Poland? What could it matter to the German, if he were free, whether he stood on so called German or so-called Polish soil? To move from Poland to Ger many would be like moving from Lancashire to Yorkshire, or from the State cf Massachusetts to the State of New York. The devalorizaticn of frontiers would be a great step toward solu tion of Europe's problems, economic, political and social. :o: PHYSICALLY PIT AT 74 In spite of a busy life. Pope Pius XI is 'fitter at 74 than many a less activs man. But his weight has dropped from ISO to 17G pounds, lie used to smoke strong Italian stogies, but does so no more. He has given up di inking wines (Bor deaux veas his favorite) and drinks boiled water, a custom he adopted in Poland. Slightly diabeic, the pope eats sparingly, but stiil laces Milanese cuisine risottos, cutlets, etc. He has a valet named Malvesiiti (the word meaning "badly dressed"). He shaves himself, using a safety razor. Once a fortnight Slmancelli, the papal barber, cuts his hair, which is still dark. SImoncelli must be si lent, for the pope takes a snooze dur ing the operation. The nasty weather Pius XI has a purewhite raincoat with galoshes to match. If he wishes, he may go mo toring, for he has many cars. He also has a radio station II V J, a telephoto service and a new elevator to replace the Vatican's hydraulic lift. Time. :o: It is gratifying to learn from an expert that it was cold, and not bugs. that killed our arbor vitae this year. Just why it is so gratifying at this time, we can't say; but it just is. -:o:- Journal WanUAds set results! SINGING IN TEE SUBS Singing in the bathtub has been a subject for song and story yes, and for investigation by physicists. This fact is not to be wondered at. For who is there without a genuine personal concern in the matter? One may never have tried to mix the oil of tuneful gladness with the grate fully warm water of the morning tub. Put he is in a small minority indeed who has not muttertj at least the sentiment of Shelley's "I'.ird thou never wert," outside a bathroom door. Either from the outside or the in side, most people have a very active interest in the bathroom ballad. So whenever someone attempts to pene trate the subtle relationship between soap and symphonies, a lar and not inexperienced audience awaits his pronouncements. Now comes Dr Yern O. Knudsen, associate profes sor of physics at the University of California, with the opinion that the acoustical properties of bathrooms are responsible for much community er-tt :: tainment. The question is net to bo lightly dismissed. It is one not only oi avthelic. but of ethical and econom ical application as well. From the point of view of ethics it might be ashed should not a bather consider it a duty not only to lift the bath room ceiling, but also to let his lis teners know that on certain nights lie will render all-request programs requests for songs, be it under stood, to receive preference over those f'r silence. From the stand point of economics it would" seem ad visable for someone exp-. -i'-nced in : esc arch to determine whether or not a c-.-rtain Chicago alderman was correct in asserting that singing pro longs the bath and wastes water. Mc-anwhiie it may be expected that every morn and every evening will be heard throughout the land the miphty choru"- of soaking song rters. For if physicists can find no reason why a bathtub baritone should step, it is almost certain that the ! vocalizers v. ill not be discouraged by the doubtfulness cf reasons for : onti:ining. Song, they will say. is of the bean rather than of the head. No dsubt n:r:ry of them secretly feel that If Mendelssohn was accorded fr;me for his Songs Without "ords they should at leart be forgiven for iheir songs without reason. :o: TKE COUNTEE-ATTACS When an army is demoralized, the first thing to do is to stop its retreat. Then it can be organized for an ad vance. That is what the government has been doing so far as lies with in its power in the measures first to mobilize tne national credit behind the nation's financial structure and then to use the resources of the fed eral reserve system to build up the bank reserves. Tho creation of the Reconstruc tion Credit Corporation and the adop tion of the Glass-Steagall act were intended to stop the retreat. They virtually put an end to bank fail ures. Now the counter-attack is be ing organized through the operations of the federal reserve system. Cankers and financiers understand whet is going on. It is well for the public generally to understand the i rocedure and what it may be honed to accomplish. It is impossible for prices to rise while goods and securities are be ing dumped in order to pay off bank loans. To stop this dumping the fed eral reserve system has been buying government securities in large quan tities and the banks have been ac cumulating the proceeds of the sales. The increase in bank reserves i3 ex pected to have the effect of reliev ing any strain on the banks so they no longer will be under pressure to call loans or to refues to make new loans of proper character. With forced liquidation stopped, prices are expected to stabilize and the courage of both lenders and bor rowers to increase. Then gradually what might be called normal lend ing and borrowing would come back. The resulting activity in business would create a demand for goods that would tend to raise prices and to re lieve the situation of the debtors. These results cannot be hoped for overnight. Put the expectation of the financial high command in Wash ington is that the results will oe more and more apparent as the sea son advances. :o: Iluey Long, who held up an im portant session of the senate the other night while he made a wise cracking speech that accomplished nothing, probably puts in his unoffi cial time kidding busy waitresses during the rush hour, and asking fool questions of railroad conductors. :o: No better trading point than Plattsmouth. Journal ads will bring you news of values offered by local stores equal to the best radio and mall order "bargains," CHI0 liEFEXLENPUM ON PE0HIEITI0N Tuesday's primary in Ohio was virtually a referendum vote on pro hibition. This aspect of the contest overshadowed everything else. The result was emphatic and offers a clear indication that both political par ties will at Chicago stand for some form of modification or repeal oi the Eighteenth amendment. Ohio is the home and has been the operat ing headquarters of the Anti-Saloon. League. That once all-powered body had strongly indorsed various candi dates in the primary, nearly all of whom were decisively beaten, and had violently attacked others who won notable successes. Govern 01 White, who had been considered a stern and unyielding dry till he re cently came out for some kind of popular vote on prohibition, was easily renominated for another term; while Senator IJulklcy, who had pre viously carried the state as an out-and-out antiprchibitionist, was un opposed for re-election. Still more significant was the republican vot ing. In it the prohibiuon issue was manifestly the chief one. despite the previous protest cf Senaior Fess that it should not be considered at all in the selection of candidates. Mr. Ingalls won the nomination for gov ernor on a repeal plank, while the party's choice for United States sen ator, Atorney General Gilbert Pett man, had long ago made himself known in favor of root-and-branch methods of getting rid cf prohibi tion. This positive expression of public c.pinion in Oliio. made by both par ties, will surely be taken as one more sign that there is to be a bi partisan effort at Chicago to take prohibition out cf the presidential campaign by turning jointly a coid shoulder upon it. The exact form of words written into the party plat io"ins may be in doubt, but the in tent will be clear to the whole coun try. It will be a public confession that the Eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act were a great mis take originally, and have become a colossal failure in the attempt to execute them. The inference will everywhere be drawn that, in some v. ay or other, at some time near or distant, prohibition will be put in the way cf ultimate extinction. These proofs of the- way in which the popu lar will is turning on that question have now become so convincing that even Bishop Cannon refuses to pre dict what may happen. At Atlantic City he merely asked the despair ing o.uestion, "Can't we hope for a united front of prohibitionists, north and south?" The outcome in Ohio argues strongly that there are now not enough of them to sweep back ihe tide for repeal which is rapidly rising to engulf both political par ties. New York Times. :o: FABItIS NEED FOREIGN I.IAESETS The American people are being taught certain fundamental prin ciples in economics by events of the last three years. Under the stress cf adversity various truths are being demonstrated that were obscured in years of prosperity. Dr. B. M. Anderson of the Chase National Bank pointed out one of these lessons in his address to the Chamber cf Commerce recently. It was the lesson that if a country want3 to sell goods abroad, it must be willing to accept payment in im ported goods. For there is not enough gold in the world for payments to be made in gold. In the years when the world was living beyond its means it kept in creasing the tariff barriers among nations under pressure from the in terests that expected to profit. The United States did the same thing. Then when people no longer could say, "Charge it," and extravagant .-i'dir.g and borrowing stopped, the tariffs were so high that they helped to strangle trade. America had been selling its farm surpluses abroad and getting a con siderable portion of its pay from loans which it made in Europe. When it stopped making the loans the foreigners no longer could pay, as we had cut down payment in goods by high tariffs. It was widely believed by econo mists that the tariff bill of 1923 was a mistake;: that for our own good the revision should have been down ward, not upward; that our farmers needed the foreign market which we were closing; and that manufactur ers themselves would have been bet ter off to have moderate competition from abroad in an expanding home market, than to have a monopoly in a home market that was bound to contract because of the inability of the farm consumers to sell their products overseas. This situation is increasingly real ized. It was outlined clearly by Dr. Anderson. Unfortunately the practi cal difficulties in the way of any change at this time make immediate tariff revision impossible. What the country needs now is relief from po litical uncertainty. The evils from a prolonged session of congress, with a political tariff revision in pros pect, would far outbalance any prob able advantage that might be gain ed. The primary requirement row is that congress finteh the tax meas ures, adept drastic governmental economies, and adjourn. :o: TEE IOWA CANDIDATE P0R VICE-PEESIDENT One of the few men who are be ing publicly pushed for the demo cratic vice-presidential nomination through some of those who are nominally s-:king the presidential nomination have scant hope of that and arc actually hoping to be chosen for the second po. ition is Dr. Ma thew A. Tinley of Council Bluffs, major general commanding the Thirty-fourth division, national fMiard. It is easy for the general's friends to cite a splendid record in both civilian and military service. Foi his record is ouTTtanding. He com manded the One Hundred Sixty eighth legiment. Rainbow division, in action in France, for example. He won the Legion of Honor decoration, besides other French and American distinctions. He is exceedingly popular with the guard troops under his command. Yet he is not a pro fessional soldier; he is a professional physician. And lie is highly regard ed as an intelligent and wholesome civilian Pader by lowaris, regardless cf party. The Register does not know what support is being got for the Tinley candidacy in other states. There ought to be lots of it. Des Moines Register. :o: EPPECT OF ADVERTISING Py making an aggressive news paper advertising campaign, mer chants and manufacturers can do a great deal toward reviving business, F. Willett Walton, jr., vice-president of Arnold Constable & Co., said yesterday after observing the effect of an unusually large expenditure of money on newspaper advertising for the Stewart Week sale of Arnold Constable & Co. The store yesterday had the larg est number of shoppers in one day in its 101 years of existence, and Mr. Walton attributed this fact to the unusually large expenditures which the store made for newspaper advertising. "The buying public is buying to day plenty of merchandise, and is ready to buy more." he said. "All that it asks is for adequate reasons for buying." Neve Yoik Sun. :o: : FOE SALE Delco automatic light plant, near ly new. Inquire Robert Tatterson, Murray rhone 3311. al4-tfw Journal Want-Ads cost only few cents and get real results! NOTICE Of Application for License to op erate a Pool Hall: Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will, on Tuesday, June 7th. 1&32. at 3:00 o'clock p. m. at the County Court House in Platts mouth. Cass County. Nebraska, make application to the Board of Commis sioners cf Cass County, Nebraska, for a license to operate a pool hall in the building situated on Lot 5, Block 3. in the Village of Manley, Cass County, Nebraska, for a period of one year. Signed and dated this 3d day of May, 1532. GEO E.'COON. m5-4tw Applicant. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account In the County Court of Cass Coun ty, Nebraska: State of Nebraska, Cass County, ss. To the heirs at law and all per sons interested in the estate of John Quinton, deceased: On reading the petition of C. D. Quinton, administrator, praying a final settlement and allowance of his account filed in this Court on the 4th day of May, 1932, and for his discharge as administrator. Also that H. M. Logan has filed claim and petition for assignment of surplus under note and mortgage given by Flossie Peters and John C. Peters; It is hereby ordered that you and all j .-. r i r, . . I-. . '...( ...1 i .i cowl rrtnttow ! may, and do, appear at the County Court to bo held in and for said County, on the 3rd day of June, A. D. 1932, at ten o'clock a. m. to show cause, if any there be, why the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pend ency of said petition and the hear ing thereof be given to all persons interested in said matter by publish ing a copy of this order dn the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said County, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 4th day of May, A. D. 1932. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) m9-3w County Judge. Lumber Sswing Commercial sawing from your own lorjs lumber cut to your specifications. We have ready cut dimen sion lumber and sheeting for sale at low prices. NEBRASKA BASKET FACTORY NOTICE TO CREDITORS The State of Nebraska, Cass Coun ty, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Ter race Henninps Pitman, deceased. To the creditors of said estate: You Rre hereby notified, that I will sit at the- County f'ourt Room in Plattsmouth. in said County, on the 3rd day of June. A. D. I'.t32. and on the ,th day of September, A, D. 11)22, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of each e'ay to receive and examine all claims aeninst raid estate, with a view to their adjustment and al lowance. The- time limited for the presentation of claims acainst said state is three months from the I'.rd lay of June-, A. D. and the time limited for payment cf debts is one vear from raid Ilrd day of June. 1JC2. Witness my hand and th seal cf said County Court this 7th day cf May, A. II. DUXPURY. iSeal) mD-Sw County Judge. ORDER OF ::r:AKlNG and Notice on Petition lor Set tlement of Account In the County Court of Cass Coun ty. Nebraska: State of Nebraska, Cass County, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of Frank Prince, deceased: On reading the petition of Chris tine Chovanec. administratrix, pray ing a final settlement and allowance of her account filed in this Court on the 14th day of May, 1932. and for final assignment of the residue of raid e-state and for discharge as ad ministratrix thereof; It is hereby ordered that you and all persons interested in said matter may. and do, appear at the County Court to be held in and for said county, on the 10th day of June, A. D. 1932. at ten o'clock a. m. to show cause, if any there be, why th prayer of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof be given to all per sons interested in raid matter by pub lishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said County, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said court this 14th day of May, A. D. 1932. A. 11. DUXBURY. (Seal) mlC-Gw County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account. In the County Court of Cass coun ty. Nebraska. State of Nebraska, Cass county, fs. To all persons interested in the estate of Samuel G. Latta, deceased: On re ading the petition of Orin A. Davis, one of the Executors, praying a final Fettlement and allowance of their ncrount filed in this Court on the 10th day of May, 1932. and for final assignment of the residue of said cstnte and for their discharge its Exe cutors thereof; It is hereby ordered that you and all persons interested in said matter may. and do, appear at the County Court to be1 held in and for said coun ty, on the lbth day of June, A. D. 1932 at ten o'clock a. m. to show cause, if any there- be. why the prayer of the petitioner should not be grant ed, and that notice of the pendency of said petition and th hearing there of be given to all persons interested in said matte r by publishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said county, for three mccessive weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof. I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 14th day of May, A. D. 1932. A, II. DUXBURY. (Seal) mlC-2w County Judge. NOTICE OF SALE In the District Court of Cass coun ty. Nebraska. In the matter of the trustee-ship of the estate of Anna Gorder Ploe-tz, de ceased : Notice is hereby given that in pur suance of an order of the Honorable James T. Begley, Judge cf the Dis trict Court of Cass county. Nebraska, made on the 12th day of March. 1932,, for the sale of real estate hereinafter described for the payment of legacies and expenses of administration under the last will and testament of Anna Gorder Ploe-tz. deceased, there will be sedd at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the south door of the court house at Plattsmouth. Ne braska, on the 2(th day of June, 1932. at the hour of 1(T o'clock a. m., the following described real estate. to-wit: The cast one-half (EU) of the northeast quarter (NE'4 of Section eighteen (18). Township twelve (12) north of Range thir teen (13) cast of the fith P. M., in Cas? county, Nebraska, and an undivided one-half interest in and to Lots two (2). three (3) and four (4), in Block thirty-five (35) in the City of Weeping Water in Cass county, Nebraska. That the sale will be held open for the period of one hour and that the highest bid will be submitted to the Court for confirmation and approval. Dated this 14th day of May. 1932. FRANK A. CLOIDT, Trustee of the Estate of Anna Gorder Ploetz, Deceased. A. L. TIDD, Attorney. I ml6-5w